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Seen while in IRC a few mins ago...

[16:45] <******> hmm, Nero and Alcohol 120 dont work with Vista
[16:45] <***> don't use vista then
[16:45] <******> how am I going to burn an XP cd to get back

Hehe.... I think most ppl would dual boot....or I hope anyway

In message <>, XPD wrote:

> Seen while in IRC a few mins ago...
>
> [16:45] <******> hmm, Nero and Alcohol 120 dont work with Vista
> [16:45] <***> don't use vista then
> [16:45] <******> how am I going to burn an XP cd to get back
>
> Hehe.... I think most ppl would dual boot....or I hope anyway

Does Vista support dual-booting?

Blue wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:03:58 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> In message <>, XPD wrote:
>>
>>> Seen while in IRC a few mins ago...
>>>
>>> [16:45] <******> hmm, Nero and Alcohol 120 dont work with Vista
>>> [16:45] <***> don't use vista then
>>> [16:45] <******> how am I going to burn an XP cd to get back
>>>
>>> Hehe.... I think most ppl would dual boot....or I hope anyway
>> Does Vista support dual-booting?
>
> Nope, PAY us MS all of your $, and leave all to us in your will.
>
*******s.

Every betq & rc I've tried so far recognises other versions of windows
and will write a boot.ini including them if you choose the right options.

So far Vista does not recognise other operating systems than MS, which I
think is a bad marketing mistake, but at this stage it does multi-boot
with w2k & xp. I haven't tried with 9*.


--
Rob

Standards are always out of date. That's what makes them standards.
(Alan Bennett)

On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:03:58 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

>> Hehe.... I think most ppl would dual boot....or I hope anyway
>
> Does Vista support dual-booting?

Probably to the same extent that M$ WinNT5.1 supports dual booting - IOW
no.


Ma Hogany

--
"The average user doesn't know what he wants. The average user wants
fries with that, if prompted."

MaHogany wrote:
> On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:03:58 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>>> Hehe.... I think most ppl would dual boot....or I hope anyway
>> Does Vista support dual-booting?
>
> Probably to the same extent that M$ WinNT5.1 supports dual booting - IOW
> no.
>
Windows has always supported dual-booting, in the sense that you can
boot multiple (and non-Microsoft) operating systems using the MS
bootloader (NTLoadr). You just have to know how to tweak boot.ini.

Cheers,

Cliff

On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 20:52:48 +1300, Enkidu wrote:

> Windows has always supported dual-booting, in the sense that you can
> boot multiple (and non-Microsoft) operating systems using the MS
> bootloader (NTLoadr). You just have to know how to tweak boot.ini.

Is there a GUI for doing that?


Ma Hogany

--
"The average user doesn't know what he wants. The average user wants
fries with that, if prompted."

On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 19:04:17 +1300, MaHogany <>
exclaimed:

>On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 17:03:58 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>>> Hehe.... I think most ppl would dual boot....or I hope anyway
>>
>> Does Vista support dual-booting?
>
>Probably to the same extent that M$ WinNT5.1 supports dual booting - IOW
>no.

a) Windows XP is called Windows XP, not "WinNT5.1". Calling it by it's
internal version number makes you look like a tool.

b) Please get your facts right. Both Windows XP and Windows Vista
happily support Dual Booting out-of-the-box.

"XPD" <> wrote in news:1160279869.226950
@drone2.qsi.net.nz:

> Seen while in IRC a few mins ago...
>
> [16:45] <******> hmm, Nero and Alcohol 120 dont work with Vista
> [16:45] <***> don't use vista then
> [16:45] <******> how am I going to burn an XP cd to get back
>
> Hehe.... I think most ppl would dual boot....or I hope anyway

I googled and found a program called image burn that will burn an image
file and it works under Vista. I downloaded and tried it and it worked
fine.

I have 2 separate OS boot HDDs and use the BIOS to choose which one to boot
from - no problem booting either XP Pro or Vista RC2.


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for a young man in any language, especially Braille."
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On 2006-10-08, XPD <> wrote:
> Seen while in IRC a few mins ago...
>
> [16:45] <******> hmm, Nero and Alcohol 120 dont work with Vista
> [16:45] <***> don't use vista then
> [16:45] <******> how am I going to burn an XP cd to get back
>
> Hehe.... I think most ppl would dual boot....or I hope anyway

Hehe the fool was (apparently) using a pirate copy of XP...


--

Bye.
Jasen

On Sun, 08 Oct 2006 22:15:50 +1300, Fred Dagg wrote:

> b) Please get your facts right. Both Windows XP and Windows Vista
> happily support Dual Booting out-of-the-box.

But if you install Windoze onto a HDD that already has an OS installed,
and you're wanting to have a dual-boot arrangement, WinNT5.x will
overwrite the MBR and set up the system to only boot into WinNT5.x


Ma Hogany

--
"The average user doesn't know what he wants. The average user wants
fries with that, if prompted."